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The Innovative Health Care Leader: From Design Thinking to Personal Leadership
Experience Stanford business and medicine in a health care leadership program featuring design thinking and personal leadership skill development.

Live Online Program
Innovation, leadership, and resilience in a rapidly changing world are crucial. In this extraordinary live online, one-week program, you’ll learn how design thinking and personal leadership skills can help you develop innovative solutions to the specific challenges facing health care leaders in this unprecedented time — from improving patient care and prioritizing physician wellness to developing negotiation skills and anticipating health care reform.
Faculty members from both Stanford GSB and Stanford Medicine will share their research and strategic insights to create a rigorous, relevant, and experiential curriculum.
Find creative solutions to health care challenges with hands-on design thinking sessions. Develop personal leadership skills that inspire innovation in your team and across your organization. Learn about the key challenges facing health care organizations — from learning adaptive skills in the COVID-19 environment to improving the patient-physician relationship to using big data ethically in measuring clinical outcomes.
With guest speakers, case studies, and a professional network of thought leaders, The Innovative Health Care Leader will give you the tools, skills, and mindset to tackle uncertainty and drive change.
Key Benefits
Gain the tools, skills, and mindset to tackle uncertainty and drive innovation in your organization, and build a network of health care change agents.- Discover how your personal leadership style impacts those around you.
- Use the design thinking process to drive innovation.
- Develop deeper insights into the needs of patients, physicians, and other key stakeholders.
- Build a strong network of peers with whom you can share ideas and experiences.
- Develop a just-try-it mentality through rapid prototyping and iteration.
- Learn how to embrace diversity of opinion using a common process for design.
- Develop strategies for using personal power to build strong mutual-influence relationships within your organization.
Who Should Attend
- Global senior-level executives and policymakers with at least 10 years of experience — MDs and non-MDs — from medical schools, HMOs, PPOs, hospitals, and foundations
- Participant titles may include hospital CEO, COO, and CFO; academic deans, senior VPs, department chairs, and center directors
07 Jun 2021 – 11 Jun 2021
Format
Live Online
Part-time
Program Schedule
Program Orientation: 03 Jun 2021
Program Dates: 07-11 Jun 2021
Post-Program Follow-Up: 05 Aug 2021
Application Requirements
Qualified candidates are admitted on a rolling, space-available basis. Early applications are encouraged.
Deadline
17 May 2021
Program Fee
US $6,800
Payment is due upon admission. Your space is secured upon receipt of full payment.
Awarded
Certificate of completion. CMEs available (see Curriculum for more information).
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Curriculum
Explore our carefully designed curriculum, and go deeper with select course descriptions or a sample schedule.
Application Requirements
Review all eligibility requirements, and learn about the application process.
Participant Profile
Learn more about our past participants, and find out if the program is right for you.
Faculty Leadership
The Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
- Co-Director, The Innovative Health Care Leader: From Design Thinking to Personal Leadership
- Director, Stanford LEAD Online Business Program
Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine